Venting

A challenge for the group. The next time you see your therapist ask them if they think that being on a discussion board that deals with others intrusive thoughts and horrible symptoms everyday is a beneficial endeavor.

This does take into account that initially it is beneficial to see others share your symptoms. Also discussing symptoms and thoughts in a therapeutic setting.

I know what you mean... I actually haven't been on the discussion boards much &quot;of late&quot;, but rather just go to my friends journals (and write my own). I DO find that helpful/therapeutic. I've developed a small network of friends. I also enjoy the supportive emails and hugs from friends...

1wanderer, after the last post you put out here on this topic got rather heated, I see that you are keeping the discussion open and hoping for a different result. For the life of me, I am having a hard time understanding what your issue is with people posting their symptoms and asking others if they have felt the same way.

When I look through this board, and I see a lot of people who are hurting. I see a lot of people who need some sort of validation that others who have suffered trauma are going through the same thing. I see a lot of people frustrated that medical science and medications are doing little to help their symptoms, and are trying to figure out if anyone else has the same problem and what they did about it.

I guess the better question for you is, what exactly would you like to see people post? Many people post their own poetry. Others post articles they have found helpful. Some post uplifting stories. I personally have posted many times the medications and the therapies that have helped me, in the hopes that others might bounce those ideas off their pdocs or their therapists. I have asked questions about meds when the insurance wasn't covering the ones that I was on and I couldn't afford them on my own.

In answer to your specific question as I think you asked, yes, I have talked to my therapist about some of the &quot;venting&quot; that goes on here as it applies to my own situation, and yes, we both have found it helpful. I find it comforting in knowing that I am not alone in my suffering and often times the suggesitons that come as a result of someone else's &quot;venting&quot; has been beneficial for me.

If you find it distasteful that people are unhappy where they are, then you can chose to either not acknowledge the post by passing it over for the next one or offering some words of encouragement in how you might have addressed a similar symptom, med or complaint.

It all comes down to personal choice. This board is what the members make it. If you want something different, you should choose to open up a discussion post with a specific topic that you would like to see discussed and see where the membership of this board takes it.

I really wish that I understood your anger, what is at the root of it and why you see what others are doing and saying to be counter to their own healing. Like I said before, I DO find healing here, simply in knowing that I am not alone.

PTSD is a complex animal, and because of that it takes a many faceted approach to affect any sort of healing. Each person is different, and what helps one person may or may not help another. I know that for me, it requires a mixture of meds, therapy, daily meditation and vigilence in dealing with those things that trigger me AND bouncing things off the many on this board who have suffered largely in silence like I have.

One of my biggest issues is the bad &quot;rap&quot; that PTSD seems to have in the general public. People see stories of people with PTSD who have become serial killers, committed horrible acts of abuse on their spouses or other family members or in their places of work. Because of this stigma, many of us have to hide our &quot;illness&quot; from our employers and even our families in order NOT to get grouped in with those who have committed heinous acts because they have no place to turn.

If you read my posts here and on the other boards, I nearly always encourage people to seek help from the medical community and therapy. If they are frustrated with it, I suggest ways that they can find people who specialize in PTSD.

Are there those who do nothing but &quot;vent,&quot; and choose not to take the advice given? Sure there are, but you will find that everywhere. I hope and pray that for every one who does nothing but vent without taking the initiative to change things that there are 10 who do and that most of those will find their path to healing to be easier, simply because they realize that they are not alone on that path, and that when the path gets scary that there are others that they can turn to to bounce things off of (ok - vent).

The simplest definition of insanity is: Continuing to do the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

I told my previous Therapist about this board and she didn't think it was such a good idea, but I truthfully don't care what she or anyone has to think about it. As long as I like it and it helps me, that's all that matters!

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